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Review: Miami Law (DS)
Hudson Soft's Miami Law isn't a perfect adventure game by modern or classic standards. Gamers born after the era of floppy disks may find the menu-driven presentation archaic, and adventure devotees may take issue with the game's logic, and dismiss its minigames as pointless distractions from the story.However, Miami Law succeeds in the one aspect that an adventure game really needs to: the story. While it may cover well-worn buddy cop territory, Miami Law's storyline was gripping and well-told enough to keep me playing through the trial-and-error annoyances.%Gallery-45960%
This Week on the Nintendo Channel: Download the Law
Do you have the day off? Why not take a quick vacation down to Miami ... Law. Miami Law. On the DS. There's a demo on the Nintendo Channel, we mean. Okay, that didn't work. We'll start again: "Oh, hey, look, there's a demo for Miami Law on the Nintendo Channel. Let's all download it."Promisingly, the demo is labeled "Vol. 1." We have yet to try the demo to see if it's a good thing, but there seems to be more coming! %Gallery-45960%
Miami Law coming to DS on June 9
We might be the only ones who care about Miami Law, an action/puzzle/sudoku game coming to the DS from Hudson. But the great thing about being pathologically stubborn is that we can continue to post about games you don't give a flip about in the hopes that, eventually, you'll care against your will.To that end, Miami Law is coming out June 9, and we've got the final box art for you to look at. Can we get a hip-hip hooray? ... Well? Maybe just a hip-hip? Nothing?
You have the right to watch this Miami Law trailer
Hudson released this brief trailer of Miami Law that offers us an even briefer look at the game in action -- and a bit of confusion. We thought the male cop's name was Law Martin! Despite the fact that they're totally different games, Miami Law looks a lot like Atlus's Tokyo Beat Down in motion, which isn't going to do much to stop us from mixing the games up. This one is part shooting, part puzzle-solving adventure. Tokyo Beat Down is part punching, part ... also punching.The new screens display some of the puzzles that take place in Sara Starling's half of the game. And they also display the fact that Martin Law has his gun drawn at all times. %Gallery-45960%
GDC09: Miami Law hands-on
Our dirty, dirty love for oddball DS games isn't something we talk about nearly enough. In short: Give us tons of dialog and mini-games that have nothing to do with each other besides playing to the strengths of Nintendo's portable, and we're set. Yes, we're looking at you, Hotel Dusk: Room 215 and Touch Detective.So, with that said, let us welcome our brand-new DS darling: Miami Law.As hot-headed detective Law Martin and analytical partner Sara Starling, you'll keep the peace in Miami with gunplay and some detective work, both represented with really disparate mini-games.
Miami Law is first project from Working Designs founder's 'Gaijinworks'
When Hudson unveiled Miami Law, we desperately started scrolling through old posts and the websites of likely Japanese developers, because we couldn't identify the Japanese game upon which it was based. It turns out there's a good reason for that -- the American press release is actually the first information released about the game at all. It is being developed in Japan, but released in North America first.This information came to us from Victor Ireland, former president of the publisher Working Designs, who started a new company back in 2006 called Gaijinworks. Miami Law's localization is actually the "first project out of the gate for Gaijinworks," as Ireland told us! Back in January, Ireland told 1UP that something related to the company would be "publically announced in a month or two" for summer release, and that it wouldn't be "one of the MAIN things." We can guess that Miami Law is that first item, then, and we can look forward to more from Gaijinworks in the near future.%Gallery-45960%
Hardboiled detective action from Hudson Soft: Miami Law
In the midst of all the new release dates, a totally new Hudson DS game almost eluded our attention. We had no idea what Miami Law was when it showed up on Nintendo's press release. Hudson just sent the first screens and info about the DS action-adventure game, which distinguishes itself from Atlus's Tokyo Beat Down through multiple styles of play. Miami Law, according to the press release, is "packed with all of the ingredients of a prime-time TV show," following FBI agent Sara Starling and Miami cop Law Martin (LAW MARTIN: MIAMI LAW has a pretty nice ring to it) on two separate adventures. Sara's game is a mostly investigation-based adventure game, as she searches crime scenes and solves puzzles; Law's half of the game is all car chasing and shooting segments. Miami Law also includes unlockable Texas hold 'em and sudoku games for "when the tension gets thick."We don't believe we've seen this game before -- while it looks like a rebranded Japanese game, we don't recognize it from anything we've come across, from Hudson or anyone else. Miami Law hits the streets in June.%Gallery-45960%
